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The temperature on July 1, 1887 was about 19.7 °C. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
May 9 » Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
June 18 » The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
July 4 » The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
July 6 » David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, which transfers much of the king's authority to the Legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
October 1 » Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
Day of marriage October 12, 1910
The temperature on October 12, 1910 was between 11.3 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 3 » Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
April 28 » Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
July 24 » The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
September 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
Day of death November 12, 1944
The temperature on November 12, 1944 was between 1.4 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 7.0 mm of rain during 7.5 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
March 24 » World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
July 6 » The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
September 17 » World War II: Allied airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.
October 25 » Second World War: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
December 17 » World War II: Battle of the Bulge: Malmedy massacre: American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Joachim Peiper.
December 30 » King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.
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